Simie G Wold Ateneh

Inspiring Legacy Ask Not... Simie G Wold Ateneh

Inspiring Legacy "Ask Not..."

Intended for the priesthood and later educated at "The Eton of Africa," Engineer Simie G. Wold exchanged dreams of joining the Air Force for a Civil Engineering career that became "almost a battlefield." Intimidation, sabotage, frame-ups were what he had to battle with, but then President Kennedy's "Ask Not..." legacy and Emperor Haile Selassie's outstanding leadership to modernize his country from the ashes of WWII had been the inspiration that urged him on to score exceptional accomplishments such as:


The first ever successful "underpinning" technology in the renovation of a high-risk old masonry historical building;
The first and only Ethiopian made refractory Incinerator; The first ever five-storey parking garage facility etc.

A strict and uncompromising professional, he nonetheless retains a great sense of humor revealed in his memoir by the colorful way he depicts his challenges and adversaries. Filled with renowned personalities, brilliant engineering solutions, sly embezzlers and millions of dollars in cost savings, this compelling memoir reveals how one individual's determination to serve his country with unswerving loyalty had achieved significant results to set an example to fellow countrymen.